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Festival Pass for Monday, May 14

Iggy Pop will perform a special one-off reunion with the all-star band Post Pop Depression featuring members of Queens of the Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys during the Foo Fighters’ curated Cal Jam 18 at Glen Helen Regional Park and Amphitheatre on Saturday, Oct. 6. (Photo by Armando Brown, contributing photographer)

Cal Jam returns: Foo Fighters will headline Cal Jam 2018 — not really a surprise since it’s kind of the band’s own festival — but the rest of the lineup is pretty hot. It’s so hot Iggy Pop won’t even wear a shirt when he plays with Post Pop Depression. (Just kidding, we know he won’t wear a shirt anywhere. He’s Iggy Pop.) But seriously, here’s everyone who is playing the festival and the pre-party.

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Tyler, the Creator performs on the Coachella Stage during Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club, in Indio, Calif. on Saturday, April 14, 2018. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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Vanessa Franko is the Digital Director of Entertainment for the Southern California News Group. The lure of palm trees and covering pop culture brought her to The Press-Enterprise in Riverside in 2006. Vanessa has reported on everything from the Palm Springs International Film Festival to the MLB All-Star Game as a reporter, photographer, videographer and on-camera personality. She's won awards for her coverage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and for crime reporting in her home state of Maryland. Vanessa studied multimedia storytelling as a Knight Digital Media Center fellow in Dec. 2011 and has taught college courses in digital journalism. She's seen shows at every major concert venue in Southern California, but most special was when Paul McCartney played the high-desert roadhouse Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown for a couple hundred fans in Oct. 2016. Her album collection numbers in the thousands (including a couple hundred on vinyl) and when she isn't hunting for records, she and her husband like to check out the best in Southern California craft beer and watch sports. She also had a cameo in the 1992 Atlanta Braves highlight film, Lightning Strikes Twice!